Kingdom Hearts Fan Creates Birth by Sleep Randomizer

May 21, 2022May 21, 2022 Orpheus Joshua

Kingdom Hearts fans are continuing to impress, with a prominent community member, Keytotruth, having created a randomizer for the PC version of Kingdom Hearts Birth by Sleep Final Mix.

This mod allows players to toggle between randomized enemies, including bosses, shop contents, and treasure chest items. While the idea of a randomizer for this title doesn’t seem feasible at first thought due to the nature of the command deck combat system, those aforementioned variables being altered do a significant collective job of crafting individual, fresh experiences. Randomized regular enemies and bosses alone can concoct some memorable and humorous encounters.

Additionally, the treasure chests incentivize consistent exploration for goodies that can tip the odds in your favor, similar to the randomizers already present for Kingdom Hearts Final Mix, Kingdom Hearts II Final Mix, and Kingdom Hearts III. The shops can also add unique instances of grinding depending on their lineups.

Bosses can also be toggled as standard enemies, with weak and strong variants being choosable. While this option isn’t recommended for those seeking to actually complete the game, it adds some appreciative shakeups for those willing to try it out.

You can download this mod via Github. AntonioDePau also deserves credit for this mod’s creation due to his KHPCPatchManager tool being utilized here.

View our coverage of Kingdom Hearts III’s Randomizer announcement.

You can view Keytotruth’s tweet announcing the arrival of the Kingdom Hearts Birth by Sleep Final Mix randomizer below:

I'm releasing the first version of my Birth by Sleep randomizer for everyone to try. These are the current options.

Instructions are in the tool itself.

Credits to @AntonioDePau for his
KHPCPatchManager tool which is bundled with the randomizer.https://t.co/zvLTChO22B pic.twitter.com/cMGciSVNZi

— Clavis vêritâtis (@Keytotruth) May 21, 2022

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